Beauty Quotes
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So bright the tear in Beauty's eye, Love half regrets to kiss it dry.
Lord Byron
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You're the beautiful one. It's society that's ugly.
Marilyn Monroe
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Beauty appears when something is completely and absolutely and openly itself.
Deena Metzger
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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
Petrarch
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You can only possess beauty through understanding it.
John Ruskin
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The body with its perfect mechanism loses power, magnetism, beauty, and brightness, when the soul departs from the body. This shows that the power, magnetism, beauty, and brightness belong to the soul.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
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The grand style arises when beauty wins a victory over the monstrous.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Abstractness, sometimes hurled as a reproach at mathematics, is its chief glory and its surest title to practical usefulness. It is also the source of such beauty as may spring from mathematics.
Eric Temple Bell
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Beauty is not the purpose of creation, it is its reward. Its appearance, often late in the day, is no more than an indication that the disrupted equilibrium between man and nature has once again been restored by art. Submitted to this test, what remains of contemporary works of art?
Brassaï
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Beauty is the worst kind of lie.
Beth Kephart
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Laughter and joy are part of the beauty of life.
Diogo Morgado
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Characteristics which define beauty are wholeness, harmony and radiance.
Thomas Aquinas
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It was terribly beautiful to Tess today, for since her eyes last fell upon it she had learnt that the serpent hisses where the sweet birds sing.
Thomas Hardy
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Not all the pride of beauty; Those eyes, that tell us what the sun is made of; Those lips, whose touch is to be bought with life; Those hills of driven snow, which seen are felt: All these possessed are nought, but as they are The proof, the substance of an inward passion, And the rich plunder of a taken heart.
Edward Joseph Young
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That was why there was no more beauty in the world anymore. War had killed it.
Nisi Shawl
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Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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This woman is beautiful and clever: but how much cleverer she would have become if she were not beautiful!
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Stripped of her calculated clothes and the careful camouflage of her make-up she was tired, unalluring, middle-aged. And that was something she would never admit to herself, for most of the illusion of beauty is the conviction of beauty.
Bel Kaufman
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Beauty, like wit, to judges should be shown; Both most are valued where they best are known.
George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton
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The beauty and the scent of roses can be used as a medicine and the sun rays as a food.
Nikola Tesla
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Everything in the universe is a pitcher brimming with wisdom and beauty.
Rumi
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Many thoughts are so dependent upon the language in which they are clothed that they would lose half their beauty if otherwise expressed.
John Ruskin
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Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time, nor does it take away the freedom of speech which proceeds from justice; but it gives to us the knowledge of what is just and lawful, separating from them the unjust and refuting them.
Epictetus
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Beauty is bought by judgement of the eye.
William Shakespeare